4.4.50
अवक्रयः
Operational rule vidhi
The affix ठक् comes in the sense of 'its tax' after a word in the Genitive -6th-Case in construction.
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Substitute / term अवक्रयः prathamā · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
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अवक्रयः
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Commentary
The affix ठक् comes in the sense of 'its tax' after a word in the Genitive -6th-Case in construction.
The word अवक्रय means 'Government-tax,' 'price,' 'wages,' 'rent' &c, coming from the root अवक्री 'to purchase.' Thus शुल्कशालाया अवक्रयः = शौल्कशालिकः So also आपणिकः, गौल्मिकः, आकरिकः ॥
Are not धर्म्य 4.4.47 and अवक्रय the same ? No. Dharmya is a legal due, and religious; while an 'avakraya' may be a tax exacted from a people by oppression, and so transgressing dharma.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.